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English A rchitecture. The great imaginative characteristics of our architecture its aesthetic and poetical qualities (I do not speak of Gothic architecture only) its shortcomings, its reflection of national character, the influences which shaped its course and led to its alternate rise and decline these are questions which cannot well be dealt with in the summary fashion of the following pages. The book might, in fact, be more accurately called an account of English building rather than of English architecture, if indeed it were not impossible to separate the two. The endeavour has been, first, to trace the gradual development of our architecture so far as to enable the reader to discriminate the styles, as Rickman has it; that is, to recognise approximately the date of any building he may visit; and then to give some account of the plan and arrangement of particular classes of buildings.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)
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This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.
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